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Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis
Albrecht, James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2001
more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …
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Firm recruitment behaviour: sequential or non-sequential search?
van Ommeren, Jos; Russo, Giovanni - 2009
In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276109
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Unions, training, and firm performance
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2008
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268663
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Foreign direct investment, black economic empowerment and labour productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282180
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The economics of discrimination: evidence from basketball
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268948
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Do former college athletes earn more at work? A nonparametric assessment
Henderson, Daniel J.; Olbrecht, Alexandre; Polachek, … - 2005
. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is … significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic participation is a significant determinant of wages. Additionally, by … using newly developed techniques in nonparametric regression, it shows that on average former college athletes earn a wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276244
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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection
Saint-Paul, Gilles; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model, firms use discretion in terms of whom...
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269364
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Manager ethnicity and employment segregation
Giuliano, Laura; Ransom, Michael R. - 2011
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm's 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274554
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Frictions and the joint behavior of hiring and investment
Yashiv, Eran - 2012
The decisions of firms on investment and hiring play a crucial role in business cycle fluctuations. This paper explores their dynamic behavior in the presence of frictions. It does so within a unified framework, stressing their mutual dependence and placing the emphasis on their joint,...
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